Going to aid practice on El Cap Tree Route this Sunday and try to make it up all five pitches. Who has done this route and what hooks do I need to bring to get past the end of the bolt ladder on pitch one? I can top rope 5.10 all day but leading 5.10 trad free with my aiders on is not going to happen, so hooks it is. If anyone has any other useful beta Id love to hear it. If anyone has a hand drawn topo that would be useful too. This will be my first real lead with hooks so it may get fun.

That pitch is also the first pitch of the Trip so it gets done quite often and I imagine it's not too hard. I'll bet that if you have one of each hook, you'll find a bomber placement. I'll bet a the big BD hook is the one.

lol! I've been there many times. Often in June I'll sit at the meadow outside my car thinking, gotta get up there to climb a few short routes. Sometimes I get all the way to the other side of the road before the usual "F this" philosophy takes over and we go grab a pepsi and mint it's it from the store instead.